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Travel with Vasari

Travel with Vasari is a two-part documentary presented by Andrew Graham-Dixon, exploring the work of Italian Renaissance chronicler Giorgio Vasari. On a spectacular journey through Renaissance Italy, Andrew Graham-Dixon searches for the shadowy figure
who wrote one of the most important books on art and looks at some dazzling works, including masterpieces of the early Renaissance by Giotto, Masaccio and Donatello. Giorgio Vasari was the granddaddy of all art critics, travelling Italy in the 16th century for
his definitive Lives of the Artists. Scorning medieval Gothic, he praised to the vaulted ceilings the revival of classical art and architecture. It was "a time of miracles that he named 'the Renaissance'," says Andrew Graham-Dixon, as he retraces Vasari's footsteps for
this captivating two-part film in a short Art of Italy season.

Travel with Vasari, Part 1

Travel with Vasari, Part 1
The first part of an exploration of the extraordinary achievement of the chronicler of the Italian Renaissance, Giorgio Vasari, author of the monumental Lives of the Artists.

Travel with Vasari, Part 2
Concluding the exploration of the extraordinary achievement of the chronicler of the Italian Renaissance, Giorgio Vasari, author of the monumental Lives of the Artists.

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Giorgio Vasari - wikipedia
Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) was an Italian painter, architect, writer and historian, most famous today for his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing.

Renaissance
This is a six-part BBC documentary series presented by Andrew Graham-Dixon, about the Italian Renaissance.

Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists
This page will, in time, contain all of Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists, all in unabridged English translations. Each Life will be supplimented by illustrations and a bibliography.